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“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.”

Thinking Trying Long Use Certain Pleasure Mistake Achieve Comfort Profound Entertainment Happy Lasting Cheer Being Happy Deep Thought True Happiness Cheer Up Long Lasting Proxy

Author:Simon Pegg

“writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.”

Writing Pleasure Profound Superficial

Book:A Writer's Diary

Source: A Writer's Diary

“A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.”

Men Two Body Hours Pleasure Greater Society Exercise Profound Enjoyment Appetite Lectures Amusing Horseback

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.”

Humans Understanding Growth Human Beings Pleasure Seeing Childhood Perspective Profound Oneself Satisfaction Caring Parenthood New Perspective

Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood

Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood

“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.”

“Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read.”

Pleasure Development Fairs Criticism Profound Various Insightful Hypothesis Convincing Informative Gaia Toby

Author:Francisco J. Ayala